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COVID-19 means that Lunar New Year celebrations won’t proceed the same way this year, but Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) members are finding creative ways to celebrate and honor frontline workers. This year, SF APALA memb ...

Article - 02/10/2021 - 4:08pm - 0 comments

For years, our union has called for an end to harassment and discrimination by management against our city’s workers. The work we’ve done over the years has begun coming to fruition, as evidenced by William Gould, former National Labor Rel ...

Article - 01/07/2021 - 4:07pm - 0 comments

In December 2019, a member working in San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development filed a grievance over working above their classification without additional pay. “It was a very scary thing for me to file and I almost ...

Article - 01/14/2021 - 4:06pm - 0 comments

On Tuesday, January 19, Registered Nurses from San Francisco’s hospitals, clinics, and beyond spoke out at the Health Commission meeting to condemn the ongoing refusal by the city to provide emergency COVID-19 leave to all of San Francisco’s nu ...

Article - 01/22/2021 - 4:01pm - 0 comments

When told vaccinations for frontline workers at Laguna Honda would have to wait until the first two weeks of January 2021, Nebyat Negaci, a 10-year employee at Laguna Honda, was determined to change that. Last month, frontline workers w ...

Article - 01/30/2021 - 1:54pm - 0 comments

Members at the Felton Institute Family Service Agency fought and won a new agreement containing strong health and safety provisions and a significant pay increase. Despite the impacts of COVID, we secured a 2% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) t ...

Article - 02/01/2021 - 1:46pm - 0 comments

Last month, leaders in SEIU 1021’s SFAI Adjunct Union, students, alumni, and the arts community worked with SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin to declare the college’s Diego Rivera mural a local landmark. Union leaders took this step to prevent the col ...

Article - 02/01/2021 - 1:35pm - 0 comments

When the Asian Art Museum said they would be pursuing layoffs due to COVID-19 last November, members knew they needed to spring into action and fight back. Immediately, leadership dug in their heels, got the membership engaged, and began using ...

Article - 02/10/2021 - 1:31pm - 0 comments

Towards the end of last year, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency gave a budget presentation with various made-up budget scenarios heavily implying that layoffs would be necessary to balance the operating budget as a result o ...

Article - 02/25/2021 - 1:13pm - 0 comments

For years, San Francisco lagged behind regional hospitals like UC, Kaiser, Stanford, and others in compensating radiology staff. Those hospitals had distinct career paths to compliment different areas of specialty (called modalities) such as CT ...

Article - 02/25/2021 - 12:49pm - 0 comments